This is a picture of Zaffi and her brother Phin.
They love coming to MABE on Sundays and always get a treat whilst mum looks for ‘bargains’
Zaffi’s Mum was so proud of her daughters outfit including the boots which cost a total of the BARGAIN price of £1.70 for quality clothing at jumble sale prices!
Have you bought any kids clothing for BARGAIN prices? Let us know with a picture please.
Geoff
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An elderly couple have unwittingly grown the “biggest cannabis plant” police officers had seen after buying what they thought was a shrub from a car boot sale.
The couple, who live in Bedford, had planted the drug in their garden.
Police officers were astounded when they spotted the plant. They have collected it and a spokesperson said it would be disposed of.
The couple will face no action from the police.
The officers took to their @bedfordlpt Twitter account to express their surprise at the find, saying: “Seized today. Elderly couple bought shrub at car boot sale, tended carefully – biggest cannabis plant we had seen”
This story reminds me of some students selling their unwanted items at one of our Car Boots at FALMOUTH a few years ago amongst the items were two CANNABIS plants. As a joke I put them on Phylis’s stall as she sells all types of weedy looking plants! I dont know what happened to them but she is the happiest 86 year old I know!
Geoff
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In today’s mail!
The following message has been sent via the website:
Name: TOMMY NEWTON
Email:
Subject: CAR TAX
Message: ROAD FUND LICENCE ON VEHICLES IS A MATTER FOR THE POLICE. YOU ARE A PRIVATE CITIZEN, SO THEREFOR IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU IF A CAR IS TAXED OR NOT. AND AS CARS AT THE BOOT SALES ARE ON PRIVATE LAND, ROAD TAX IS NOT REQUIRED ANYWAY.
IP Logged As: 109.149.135.121
I do not know what you are on about so stand by the men in white coats will be coming along to take you to the funny farm? By the way if the POLICE follow you on to private land at our Car Boot Sales and you do not have tax you are right it has nothing to do with us BUT they will book you PRIVATE land or NOT!!
hi geoff and lou, can u please find a site to do a carboot sale down
west on a sunday morning?
After ANOTHER wasted journey down to hayle this morning,seeing poor
young mums crying out of frustration over all their wasted time (not to
mention the petrol!) i just wondered if there was anything you could
do?
There must have been 100’s of people turned away this morning,for no
apparent reason, and i am not the only one who feels Hayle RFC do not
deserve to run such a successful event!
The amount of money they must make, you think they would take some
lessons from yourselves and have a little less apathy, and a lot more
consideration and respect for their custom! i have emailed to complain,
but am certain to be ignored!
There must be someone in the hayle area with a suitable site?
Can i use your site to urge all carbooters to unite,ask around,and find
an alternative? Ask everyone you know… and let someone who gives a
S*** organise our sunday morning carboots!
RANT over now,respect to you for doing such a good job organising and
running CarBootsCornwall!!
simone in Truro x
Simone,
I can fully understand your annoyance which was repeated several times today by lots of dissapointed customers. In fairness to HAYLE they decided due to ground conditions to cancel the sale 2 days ago and did advise several customers including the caterers. We put the cancellation on our NEWS FLASH to advise all Car Boot buyers and sellers. Thank you for your nice compliments and if anyone finds us a suitable site in the area of HAYLE we will give a £500.00 reward!
Love you Simone,
Geoff & Lou
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The following message has been sent via the website:
Name: chris
Email:
Subject: long rock car boot
Message: Hi geoff and team, i live in Penzance and we would much welcome a regular decent car boot, I heard a rumour that you may be bringing one down here. Long rock would be a good site hows that shaping out, any news? I would also suggest that you look at the Penzance all weather pitch by the fire station there is a huge gravel hockey pitch size area which is used for parking during the week, but weekends its deserted. There have been lots of small car boots which have failed over the years, Car Boots Cornwall could bring much needed stability and I can gaurantee they will be a huge success with such a great team organizing them 🙂 All the best, Chris
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Thank you for your compliments, we await some decent weather and we are sure once LONG ROCK starts it will be a HUGE success.
We will take a look at your suggestion for another site.
As soon as I know I will let everyone else know.
Thanks,
Geoff
FAKE £20.00 notes; A St Blazey man who passed a fake counterfeit £20.00 note to buy a stereo at St Austell in April has been committed to Crown Court for sentence. David Pearce 21 of New Road appeared before Bodmin magistrates on September 18th when he pleaded guilty to the offence. He is due at the Crown Court on October 18th. ………………………………………. Advice from the Bank of England; 1. Paper quality -Banknotes are printed on special paper with raised lettering in some areas. Fake notes can sometimes feel limp or waxy 2. Print quality – Numbers, letters and colours are sharp and clear, whereas counterfeit notes may appear slightly blurred 3. Holographic strip – Pound symbol and figure 20 alternate when the note is tilted 4. Microlettering – Words printed below the portrait of the Queen are only visible with a magnifying glass 5. Metallic thread – Silver dashes on the back of the note become a continuous dark line when held up to the light 6. A see-through “register” shows a broken pound sign. The symbol becomes whole when held up to the light. 7. The watermark has been moved to a white panel to make it easier to find Other – Some unpublicised “covert features” are designed to further deter counterfeiters
Recently I have had complaints about bullying at our Car Boot Sales by the absolute minority of buyers hoping to push or barge someone off stalls in an effort to GRAB A BARGAIN or to get there first!
We have spent almost 25 years building up a good reputation at our Car Boot Sales and
I will not tolerate BULLYING and I will not hesitate to BAR offenders!
Be warned I will act immediately to prevent further complaints!
OFFENDERS PLEASE NOTE!!
Geoff Camden Wiles
Joint proprietor of CARBOOTSCORNWALL
FRIDAY 28th September
Dear Marge,
It is a shame that Falmouth Rugby Club has lost is popularity like in the old days one of the reasons being that the areas allowed for us to sell are in a deplorably dangerous condition with heavy stones pebbles galore and on dry days the dust that gets on our sellers stock makes for hard work meaning packing up the car and going home to wash all your unsold items! On the plus side the locals have supported Car Boot Sales here for over 25 years and the 40 odd sellers on Friday traded well one stall taking over £260.00 which is not bad going for a couple of hours work. The Club cannot afford to have the hard standing areas of the car park and surrounding areas cleared and new tarmac for old, over the years CARBOOTSCORNWALL have had work done to repair the potholes which fill with rain on every occasion but at least we can say if you sell at Falmouth you can have a ‘waterside view’ dear!
We have known so many of the families over the years and the kids of the early days (much better behaved than some of today’s little brats) are now parents with young families of their own. We, like some of our customers get sick of hearing snotty nosed kids screaming and lashing out at their parents because either Mum or Dad has refused to buy something from one of the stalls, some of them that do not get their own way go back to the toy pick it up and walk away without paying for the items with the sellers bemused ‘Now what do I do’? Several times this year I have taken unpaid for toys off kids to return to the owners the little buggers occasionally trying to lash out at me and resorting to spitting as the final straw! Then we get some old fart expert on bringing up kids who offers “That little sod needs a bloody good hiding” What a brilliant idea lets have the little buggers screaming some more shall we! Beating kids is not the right answer nor is it legal and it only builds up a bitter resentment which results in more misbehaviour and friction between kids and their suffering parents!
Many years ago Lou and I used to be registered Childminders and were chosen by Carrick Social Services to look after ‘at risk’ children rejected by their parents and society. We had great fun teaching them right from wrong one particular little boy Scott aged 3 a twin pushed his luck so far that I upped him from his chair took him and his lunch into the garden and sat him down to eat his dinner alone in the rain whilst from the comfort of the playroom the other kids and his twin brother poked fun taking the piss out of him eating their dinner in warm surroundings. The language towards me was unbelievable as he shouted and screamed and cried but he eventually realized right from wrong and never elected for his dinner to be swamped with rain again! Great days!!
Saturday 29th September
Truro at 5.00am is the right time to put the signs out with no other traffic apart from the major stores huge lorries thumping through the City Centre delivering stocks to Sainsbury’s, Marks & Sparks, ASDA and the dreaded Tesco’s. At 5.45am I arrived at the Cattle Market to be met by a couple who had travelled from Plymouth desperate to sell at today’s sale. Like the rest of the sellers who turned up they were delighted with their morning’s takings as the public our wonderful buyers took advantage of some great bargains! One regular lady buyer nick-named B J who tells everyone ‘No, I don’t do eBay I just buy for my family’ which is a load of baloney (balls) and she puts on such an act to the seller with her voice mildly sounding like Mrs Minnie Mouse they discount the real price just to get rid of her from the stall. Some of the other buyers including my 4th wife get really pissed off with her as she grabs absolute bargains that will be listed on eBay the same day! The nickname of B J is strange, I do not know what it means but then my filthy mind has a pretty good idea.
Mitchell is all ready and set up by the time Lou and I get there to conduct our busiest Car Boot Sale of the weekend, my mate and team leader Arlin does all the signs and sets the field up after Landlord David has prepared the grounds to a pristine condition widely responsible for our success and we are guaranteed there will be lots of sellers and buyers and BARGAINS believe me! After the Sale started one of our gypsy families (great spenders) handed me a set of car keys they had found in the field and I joked if they are not claimed we would wait to the end see which car was left then sell it and we would split the money. More naughty kids with one little girl who was about 4 years old actually kicking and screaming at her Mummy because Mummy had said “NO” to the little moo! What an embarrassment she caused to herself with most onlookers feeling sympathy for the parents who could only ignore the little monster. Don’t get me wrong about kids I really like well behaved youngsters and we meet thousands and thousands of them during the season it is the tiny minority who spoil it for the others.
Lou had left Mitchell for the Royal Cornwall at Wadebridge last Car Boot of the season when a Mother and her most attractive daughter asked me “Has anyone handed in any keys” I replied “Is there a reward” mother says “If you have found them you can sleep with my daughter” Could this be wife number five I thought because she was stunning, what an offer! I took the keys out of my pocket put them into mother’s hand and said “No, I don’t want to learn another woman’s dirty habits so I will settle for a cuddle” I got my cuddle witnessed by all and sundry they had their keys and the relief for them both was obvious, it was quite nice for me as well!
Believe it or not by the time I arrived at the Royal Lou met me with “And who have you been cuddling with now”? Some miserable sod had actually told her I was snogging on with a young lady at Mitchell! Fortunately there is not an ounce of jealousy in Lou, we love and trust each other 100%….Well that’s probably exaggerating the truth a bit lets settle for 50/50 ish!
Thank you to all for supporting Car Boots Cornwall and please look after yourselves and get plenty of exercise and fresh air! We need your money! Its only 50 p What a BARGAIN! Loves…Geoff x
Our regulars know whenever it is raining at MABE we transfer the business to TRURO but thing were so bad last Sunday that all Car Boot Sales in the South West were cancelled due to the inclement weather (which means it was pissing down)but 9 very brave potential sellers were given vouchers for another day and happily drove off.
Heading the Q was Mr Fook Off and his potential son in law (they cannot agree the dowry)who had tried to sell at Hayle, St Austell, Carn Brea and MABE before arriving at TRURO only to be told to Fook Off! You will recall it was he who got his nickname after getting agitated due to the Loo’s being locked at Truro a few weeks earlier and requesting a towable Loo; See story 08/09/2011
Readers of our website in China read about Mr Fook Off and his plight and have designed a new brief case loo could help his problem.
4 pictures:
Sorry Mr F.O its the price you pay for being rude to me mate!
Bottom line;
Thank you to the other 8 sellers who turned up to sell on Sunday also to the buyers for their continued support sorry I let you down, the winner of the day was the rain! That’s 53 cancellations this year!
This weekend is going to be different!
More of these FAKE £10.00 notes have been passed to shops and stores during this week, we want to prevent any more being given to our customers! Tell your friends and mobile the serial numbers ending with 1934……..Geoff X